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Register today to take advantage of the early-bird registration rates for WEDI National Conference 2018, which will take place Monday, October 15 - Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA.

WEDI Premium Membership

WEDI has expanded our membership categories to include Premium Membership packages. These two premium membership categories serve as supplement to the standard WEDI membership package and offer an all-access pass to the Health IT industry.

Charles Stellar Named Top 50 HIT Leader for 2017

Healthcare IT is fortunate to have many knowledgeable experts. Following up on last year’s popular look at 50 of the leading HIT experts in the field, Health Data Management has once again put together its compilation of some of the guiding lights of the industry.

Aneesh ChopraThe 1st Chief Technology Officer
United States

Table 1 provides a list of telehealth resources that the Telehealth Workgroup identified as being useful and informative for the industry. This list is not all inclusive. The Telehealth Workgroup plans to review and update this list semiannually. Please contact the Telehealth Workgroup co-chairs to have additional resources considered for inclusion in the guide.

The scope of this document is to provide telehealth resources and the goals are to:

Provide a convenient place to access various telehealth resources;

Identify telehealth resources that are relevant, up-to-date, and represent a diversity of views on the topic; and

Featured Articles

WEDI, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, has issued a new white paper exploring some of the common cybersecurity vulnerabilities that are exploited by threat adversaries to gain access to healthcare networks and patient and health plan members’ protected health information.

The white paper – The Rampant Growth of Cybercrime in Healthcare – is a follow up to a primer released in 2015 that explored the anatomy of a cyberattack.

WEDI points out the seriousness of the threat faced by the healthcare industry. Cyberattacks are costing the healthcare industry around $6.2 billion each year, with the average cost of a healthcare data breach around $2.2 million.

Cyberattacks and other security incidents having risen sharply in recent years. More records are now being exposed than at any other time in history and the number of healthcare data incidents being reported reached record levels last year.